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In a previous work, we provided a proof of concept on how to calibrate step length models with a foot inertial navigation system (INS), i.e., an INS based on an inertial measurement unit (IMU) mounted on the upper front part of the foot. The reason is that the foot INS does not require calibration thanks to the implementation of the strapdown algorithm. The goal of this article is to automatically calibrate the parameters of a step length model of the pocket INS by means of the foot INS. The step length model of the pocket INS has two parameters: the slope and offset of a first-order linear regression that relates the amplitude of the thigh pitch with the user\u2019s step length. Firstly, we show that it is necessary to estimate the two parameters of the step length model. Secondly, we propose a method to automatically estimate these parameters by means of a foot INS. Finally, we propose a practical implementation of the proposed method in the pocket INS. We evaluate the pocket INS with the proposed calibration method and we compare the results to the state of the art implementations of the pocket INS. The results show that the proposed automatic calibration method outperforms the previous work, which proves the need for calibrating all the parameters of the step length model of the pocket INS. In this work, we conclude that it is possible to use a foot INS to automatically calibrate all parameters of the step length model of the pocket INS. Since the calibration of the step length model is always needed, our proposed automatic calibration method is a key enabler for using the pocket INS.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20072083","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,8]],"date-time":"2020-04-08T05:59:47Z","timestamp":1586325587000},"page":"2083","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Automatic Calibration of the Step Length Model of a Pocket INS by Means of a Foot Inertial Sensor"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4681-394X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dina","family":"Bousdar Ahmed","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Communications and Navigation, 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Estefania Munoz","family":"Diaz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Communications and Navigation, 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7121-8651","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Juan Jes\u00fas","family":"Garc\u00eda Dom\u00ednguez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronics Department of the University of Alcal\u00e1, 28805 Alcal\u00e1 de Henares, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Polo, A., Viani, F., Giarola, E., Oliveri, G., Rocca, P., and Massa, A. 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